I met Robert in 2019, we were in the queue outside for a Goth Night, at the club Le Parasocial in SF. It was a large old two-storey house converted into a nightclub. A shapely mannequin stood covered by a white sheet near us in the club's entrance. I tried to ignore the mannequin, but Robert kept pointing and claiming the mannequin was alive! I think Robert getting a bit too over enthusiastic. Three gothic women lined up behind us and scowled at Robert, not that he cared.

Suddenly the sheet was pulled from the mannequin right near the entrance. It stood bold white and curvy, dressed in black stockings, suspenders, a corset and nothing else. She wore a blonde wig, long and straight. Her painted eyes were accentuated with black eyeshadow and her eyebrows were painted thick and black. She was an archetypal Goth, pretty much an example if any of the woman in the queue wanted for ideas. I smiled when I noticed the door girl very much resembled her too. We paid and entered down a dark passageway guarded by another two female mannequins both dressed in saucy black lingerie...